Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the work being undertaken by his Department to find a solution to automatically transfer Class 3 National Insurance Credits to the electronic National Insurance Recording System for Universal Credit claimants, how many Universal Credit claimants have paid voluntary national insurance contributions to cover their time claiming Universal Credit as a result of the fact that at present those credits are not being automatically transferred to that system.

The Department is not responsible for the administration of voluntary National Insurance Contributions. HMRC have responsibility for this area.